In its 26 years of existence, officers with Canada's largest Indigenous police force have never shot and killed anyone and no officer has died in the line of duty, despite a grinding lack of resources and an absence of normal accountability mechanisms.

A politically fraught plan to store hazardous nuclear waste deep underground near the Lake Huron shoreline has been formally put to rest more than 15 years after it was first proposed.

Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that governments will have to fix.

Scores more people in Canada have succumbed to COVID-19, authorities reported on Thursday, May 7, 2020, as one of the country's major inter-city bus carriers announced it would be shutting down completely due to a precipitous drop in passengers caused by the pandemic.

Canada took further baby steps toward post-pandemic normalcy on Friday, May 1, 2020, as Atlantic provinces began easing rigid restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 scourge, while Quebec's death toll climbed past 2,000 as it set to ease its measures.

Dozens more deaths in long-term care homes were reported on Friday, April 24, 2020, as new figures indicated the extent of the economic dislocation caused by isolation measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 virus.

COVID-19's grim march through many of the country's nursing homes left more residents dead on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, as the facilities fought desperately to stem the lethal spread of a virus that has prompted crushing restrictions on normal personal and commercial activity.

Amid crippling job losses across the country due to COVID-19, the federal government on Thursday, April 9, 2020, warned the number of Canadians killed by the novel coronavirus would likely double over the next week and could reach thousands over the course of the pandemic.

Canada's confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged past 19,000 on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, with more than 500 deaths ascribed to the raging global pandemic as Quebec became the province with the most fatalities attributed to the disease.

Devastated bars and lounges as well as the country's hard-hit cannabis sector will have access to $40 billion in new credit being made available via the government's business bank during the COVID-19 crisis, its CEO said on Sunday, April 5, 2020.